Thursday, December 20, 2012

Gray Day Beauty

                                           Pasture Trees  11x14 oil on linen board plein air

This is a recent plein air painting done on a day that was supposed to be a beautiful, sunny day.  I love gray days because color is strong and light is the same for longer amounts of time.  I had problems with the color of the road, finally deciding that it was a value problem and lightened it to resolve.  The dark shapes of the trees against the top of the hill and the gray sky helped set up this simple composition. 

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